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NHS ‘solutions’ and the quality of care

David Cameron stated before the last election that the last thing the NHS needed was a major re-arrangement

February 9 2012, 12:01am, The Times

Sir, Your statement that medicine is a “profession that dislikes change” misses the plot (“Taking care”, leading article, Feb 8). I started work for the NHS in January 1974 on the day that Keith Joseph’s reforms — designed to solve all the NHS’s problems — came into force. Needless to say no such complete solution occurred. Since then, on a regular basis every few years, each new government announces plans with equally portentous claims. The thought that some of these plans might be trialled in just part of the country, to see if they might have a chance of working, seems to be a notion too far.

David Cameron stated before the last election that the last thing the NHS needed was a major top…